Day 2: Queensland School Sport Track and Field State Championships
Day 2: There were 100m thrillers along with many thrills and spills after another action packed day at the Queensland School Sport Track and Field State Championships. Full report here.
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There were 100m thrillers aplenty and many other thrills and spills on day 2 at the Queensland Representative School Sport 13-19 years track and field championships staged at QSAC.
DAY 1 AT THE SCHOOL SPORT CHAMPIONSHIPS
Northern unleashed thrilling prospect Uwezo Lubenda (15 years, 100m boys) who scorched his way to a gold medal in a time of 10.90 seconds. It was an eyebrow raising performance, although still .10 seconds off his PB.
St Peters Lutheran College also unveiled another exciting sprint talent, Daniel Masunungure (13 years, 100m), whose 12.70 second effort was a PB, while South Coast’s Mitchell Goodman (16 years, 100m) also produced an individual best effort time of 10.98 seconds.
There was immediate tension at the start of the 100m events when a false start was called on the 13 years women’s runners.
St Rita’s Sienna De Young displayed nerves of steel to remain calm and win the event a few minutes later.
Then came Masunungure’s 13 years boys’ 100m win in a blanket finish ahead of Ezra Devine (Met East) and Sebastian Hartel (South Coast).
The 14 years 100m women’s was a triumph for Lily Woods (CAP, Heights College) whose 12.47 second time was enough to raise her to victory over Charli Cox (Northern, third) and Lara Crisafi (Met East).
Ned Amorsen (Met North) was first in the 14 years boys’ dash, beating Vince Figliano (silver) and Marlon Andrews (bronze).
It was also a high class field in the 15 years womens sprint, with Charlee Vincent of Kings Christian College finding the winners post first, ahead of Xanthee Watts (Darling Downs) and Addison Farianazzo (Met West).
As mentioned earlier, South Coast’s Goodwin was dynamic (16 years boys 100m), beating home Keanu Watson-Hewitt (silver) and Kyan Dotta (Met East).
There was more success for Northern when Kaitlin Bitossi finished first in the 16 years women, ahead of silver medallist Rose Acklin (Met North) and Willow Dean (Northern).
One of the sprint highlight was the 17 years women’s event which saw Mikayla Webb, all the way from St Patrick’s College, Mackay, beat elite junior Ebony Okonkwo (St Margaret’s).
Not long after that thriller, while Kai Peacock (Wide Bay) flew the flag of Xavier Catholic College with his 17 years win.
Phew. What a blast of 100m drama that was.
Earlier in the day there was double the fun, with twins Bettina and Scarlett Doel finishing one-two in their hurdles event earlier in the day.
The Helensvale SHS students challenged each other during a splendid 18-19 years 400m hurdles, with Bettina claiming the gruelling victory.
The sisters were ultra competitive, often sharing around the order in which they finished on the podium.
But on this day it was Bettina who won despite her sister Scarlett joking she went “easy” on her today.
Around ongoing track action, the field athletes continued to toil away.
Geordie Cowdroy (Darling Downs) was outstanding with his gold medal winning performance (17 years high jump), with Lucas Baker Met West, second) and Ty Lockwood (South Coast) third.
In the 17 years women’s high jump Danielle Philippa Jones (Met North) soared to claim gold from Ormiston College’s Chelsea Baumber (Met East) and Northern’s Elizabeth Horne.
The 18-19 years high jump was also an exciting event, culminating in first place to the tried and tested Dior Scholz (South Coast), whose gold medal effort edged out silver medal winner Mikayla Karibalis (Met East) and bronze medal winner Lucy Jones (Sunshine Coast).
The big boys unleashed in the discus, including Joshua Sipple-Asher (South Coast) who beat Odysseus Hanocq (Met West) and Bailey Silvester (Capricornia).
In the 14 years men’s javelin, Tim Scott unloaded to snare victory, with Ethan Kent (silver) and Rowan Sunstan (Met West) just behind him.
St Peters Lutheran College were represented again when Theo Harvey claimed a gold medal in the 16 years long jump. The silver medal went to Dylan Gardner (South Coast) and the bronze medal to Rocco Paludetto (Sunshine Coast).
The captivating 17 years women’s 1500m saw a runaway win by South Coast’s Kyah Anderson whose time of 4.45.99 was well ahead of rivals. Second was Bridie Maher (Peninsula) who bravely held off bronze medallist Kiera Macdonald.
The men’s 17 years 1500m clash was outstanding, with John Paul College student Padraig Heffernan claiming gold from Micaiah Lane (CAP) and JC Inteyiteka (Sunshine Coast).
Hurdles were an early highlight on the second day of competition.
The 200m 14 years women’s hurdles kicked off proceedings, with St Mary’s Ipswich student Leah Leembruggen representing her district with distinction.
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Second was Sunshine Coast region representative Taya Clayton and in the bronze position came St Rita’s Met North hurdler, Tiarni Bitossi.
In the 200m 15 years women’s Hayley Colless prevailed over second placed Addison Farinazzo and Zara Gaviglio.
The demanding 400m hurdles were a highlight of competition.
In the 14-15 years age group WestMAC’s Met West representative Tiana Parsons was strong to the line from silver medallist Isabella Chester (Northern) and Warwick’s Elliza Moore-Kirkland (Darling Downs).
There was a terrific contest in the 17 years women’s 400m hurdles when Ava Stephens (South Coast) beat Chyenne Collier and Elizabeth Lee.
In the 14 years 200m men’s hurdles, South Coast’s Harry Osborne leaned into the line to defeat silver medallist Charlie Krieg (Darling Downs) and Logan McDermott (Met East).
The 15 years men’s hurdles saw The Southport School’s Justin Frost warm up for next week’s GPS track and field championships with a winning performance in his 400m hurdles.
Frost was followed in by Marist College Ashgrove’s Connor Campbell and Leonardo Seremet.
In the 16 years 400m event Met West’s Daon Choi, who attends Indooroopilly SHS, powered to the line from TSS’s South Coast representative Jaxon Todd and Sunshine Coast’s Samuel White.
The 18-19 years boys hurdles was claimed by Harry Sharpe (South Coast) from Alex Hamilton, while the 17 years 400m hurdles went to Oliver Corcoran.
Corcoran finished ahead of silver medallist Ryan Hisco and William Mehta.
The men’s 18-19 years high jumpers soared their way to a dramatic finish, with a countback needed to split gold medallist Christian Kuenzel from silver medallist Lachlan Purdie and bronze medallist Lachlan Milburn.
There was more exciting field action when, in the 14 years hammer, Taylah Smith-Miller (SC), Matilda Crowther (CAP) and Akira Hamon (SC) went one, two and three.
The 14 years hammer was claimed by Ellie Leneham (SC).
South Coast’s Jalyn South continued to be among the medals, this time winning gold in the 15 years hammer throw.
Grace Cooper (SC) was second while central Queensland’s Emily Moore (CAP) finished with the bronze medal.
The discus girls got among it, with Met East athlete Saskia Josipovic winning gold. THE silver medal went to Met West’s Olivia Windolf and the bronze medal to Wide Bay’s Georgina McCabe.
The 16 years multi class girls shot put was a spirited affair, with North West’s Libby Michaelia (gold) the winner, while the 17 years multi class girls shot put went to Aryannah Keegan (South Coast).
Holly Ann Richards-Moody (Capricornia) won the 18-19 years shot put.
The multi class hammer throw girls were in fine form.
The outstanding performances continued to come thick and fast across the multi class events.
The women’s 16 years 800m saw Abbie Laherty (Wide Bay) ease out Wide Bay teammate Libby Venner (silver) and third placed Colette Chapman (Met West).
There was another podium finisher from Wide Bay when Kelsey McPhie was second to Ellie Daniels (Darling Downs, 14 years 800m), and when Jada McCoombs (Wide Bay) was second to Isabella Gee (Met West).
Met West continued to be represented on the podium, this time by Daniel Phillips (gold) and Tom Gribble (bronze) in the 13 year boys 800m. In Second place was South West’s Jaxon Green.
Darling Downs also got among the multi class middle distance medals when Jayden Graham (gold) and Darius Lait (bronze) powered home in the 14 years. Second was Tyriq Manns (CAP).
The 15 years was won by Darling Downs’ Tayson Giles from Heath Otto (Northern) and Hamish Finlay (Darling Downs).
In the 16 years men’s 800m multi class, Hayden White (Met West) was the gold medal winner from Tomas Crump (Darling Downs) and Marcus Pham (Met West), while the 17 years event was claimed by Met North’s Nick Kane. Kane finished ahead of silver medallist Lachlan O’Brien (Wide Bay) and Oliv Hutchinson (Met East).
To round off the 800m multi class events, Axel McElhone (Met West) was first and Alby Evertt second in the 18-19 years event.
Later in the day Moody-Richards (CAP) was on the podium again, this time in the 18-19 years discus, while in the 16 years discus, North West’s Libby Michaelis claimed gold and Molly Serafin silver.
The gala day two of action today followed six records on the opening day on Friday, including Emma Fryga’s 800m preliminary performance (2:07.46) which broke a 30 year record, and also Piper Anderson’s blistering 3000km performance (9:46.61) which lowered the old 14 years mark by 17 seconds.
But there were other records including Nahkiyha Mullins-Walit (16 years javelin, 49.23m), superb Logan middle distance athlete Tess Hannigan (women 18 years, 5000m) and elite 5000m runner Padraig Heffernan (men’s 18-19 years).
And another 5km ace, Kobi Walker (women’s 18-19 years), a Moreton Bay College product, was a record breaker.
More reports coming later today, including sprint coverage.
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